Typography is the art of shaping space. Designers carve blank pages into dynamic layouts. Then, they adjust the space around letters, words, and lines of type. Join internationally renowned designer and typographer Ellen Lupton as she shows how to make better typography by activating key design principles—from macro to micro.
These days, the only way to be truly efficient and productive is to think “outside the box” and look at the ecosystem of services, resources, and third-party tools that are available to you.
Join us for a far-reaching discussion, including a look at the future of publishing, with David Blatner, Marcus Radich (PageProof.com), and Mark Hilton (santacruzsoftware.com).
Working remotely has forced many publishing teams to develop new ways to collaborate on projects online. Whether you’re still working from a remote home office or are moving gradually to an in-office status, contributing freelancers and publishing teams can continue to use the best of these solutions to streamline page production and proofing.
Join Anne-Marie as she presents tried-and-true options for teams of any size:
You’ll be so encouraged and energized by what you learn that you’ll be fixing your own workflows as soon as you get back to your projects!
As an InDesign user, have you ever collaborated with content providers whose talents lay in areas other than text formatting? So, when you get their text content, it’s been manually formatted (for font size, bold, colors, etc.)? Are you spending hours reformatting text with paragraph and character styles, just so you can do your job? Is there a better way? YES! This session explores ways to automate this process – even if you need to maintain a live link to the text files!
You’ll learn how to fix your files through:
The Creative Cloud is far more than a bunch of cool apps… it’s an entire ecosystem of integrated tools, services, and resources. If you work on your own, it’s cool. But if you work with a team or collaborate with others, it’s life-changing.
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The two most important software developers for creative pros are Adobe and Microsoft, so it’s critical that you find ways to integrate their suites of apps. In this in-depth session, Bart Van de Wiele will explore how to use Adobe’s Document Cloud apps (Acrobat and Sign) and Creative Cloud products within the Microsoft suite of products for collaboration and approval.
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Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner have spent almost two decades publishing tips and tutorials about their favorite page-layout app: literally thousands of blog posts, podcasts, magazine articles, videos… Watch as they battle to find the best of InDesignSecrets and and InDesign Tips for Design Geeks.
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Most of us have had the experience of leaving comments in a PDF. But there are a number of other options to aid in the comment and review process, including Share for Review, Send for Comments (Document Cloud), Import PDF Comments, and PageProof.
Learn how easy it can be to set up an approval process, allowing quick collaboration between members on a team, or designers and their client stakeholders.
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You’re an InDesign user but you’re surrounded by people who aren’t: editors, bosses, clients, stakeholders… Life would be so much easier if everyone had InDesign, but that’s not realistic. So what can you do? What tools, services, techniques, and workflows can you take advantage of to ensure that the right people can edit the right stuff at the right time—and no one screws up your layout.
It’s all about the type. If you can’t help but critique the typography of restaurant menus, need to pause Netflix to figure out the font that’s being used in your favorite drama, or get excited when you stumble upon a piece of ghost type or beautiful signage, then this session is perfect for you.
In this fun, fact-filled, and educational hour, we’ll look at a range of projects that have typography at their core. We’ll talk about the choices made and the techniques used to make them tick.
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